Dr. Atsushi Murase graduated from Electronics and Communications Engineering Department in the School of Science and Engineering at Waseda University in 1981 and joined the Yokosuka Electrical Communication Laboratory of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (now Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, NTT) in the same year. He became President and CEO of DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH in 2002, Managing Director of Research Laboratories at NTT DOCOMO, INC. in 2007, Head of NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories in 2012, Head of NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group in 2013, Member of Board and General Manager of the Solution Services Business Division at DOCOMO Technology, Inc. in 2015, and EVP, Member of Board and General Manager of the Corporate Planning Department at the same company in 2018. In 2023, he was appointed Special Advisor to the company, a position he holds to the present.

Since joining Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, he has devoted himself to the research and development on mobile communications system and terminal technologies, and also spread and expansion of them. He has contributed to the practical application of high-speed and large-capacity mobile communications system (W-CDMA), a part of the IMT-2000 international standard, also known as third-generation mobile communications system. He has brought innovation to mobile communications services and has strived to create an affluent ICT society.

His notable achievements include developing the W-CDMA technology in cooperation with base station development as the person in charge of IMT-2000 terminal development, which led to the adoption of the technology as an international standard. In the development of multimedia terminals for IMT-2000, he realized a highly portable terminal with video transmission capability that could handle a variety of multimedia. Furthermore, with the development of the UIM card for IMT-2000, he achieved Japan's first SIM/UIM card compatible with GSM. The introduction of UIM to terminals realized physical separation between the communication and the subscriber authentication functions, and dramatically enhanced the extensibility of subsequent terminal development. These achievements enabled the world's first third-generation mobile communications service to be launched in Japan in 2001, allowing people to enjoy multimedia services such as music and video streaming and videophone on the move, bringing information and communications services to a new stage.

In recognition of these accomplishments, he received the 39th Achievement Award of the IEICE in 2001, the Maejima Hisoka Award of the Tsushinbunka Association in 2002, and the Awards for Science and Technology of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2008. He has also delivered many invited lectures, served as General Chair and Publicity Chair for international conferences, and participated in standardization activities in ARIB and 3GPP, related important standardization organizations, contributing significantly to the advancement of this field. Furthermore, from 2007, he served as Managing Director of NTT DOCOMO Research Laboratories, pioneering new research areas using big data processing, such as Mobile Spatial Statistics, and from 2013, he served as Head of the NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group, where he oversaw the laboratory's advanced fields and vigorously promoted the creation of world-leading results in a wide range of fields, including basic research in physical and communication science, electronic and optical devices, transmission, and networking.

At the IEICE, he served as a council member from FY2009 to FY2010 and as a director from FY2012 to FY2013. Since 2013, he has also been active as an officer, including being appointed as a delegate. He has also made notable contributions to the development of the information and communications field in a wide range of areas, including serving as a member of the ICT Working Group of the Cabinet Office, an expert member of the National Research and Development Agency Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and a member of the Creation of Innovation Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Areas Program. We are convinced that he is worthy of being made an Honorary Member of the IEICE, and we recommend him for it.